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Mrs. Gandhi's state visit pointed up the fact that Mauritius-situated some 2,400 miles south of the Indian subcontinent and 1,400 miles off the coast of East Africa-has become an object of interest to the great powers. The closing of the Suez Canal in 1967...
INDIA. In 1930, the subcontinent had an estimated 40,000 tigers-quite a few, considering India's centuries-old passion for blood sports. But now the worldwide demand for furs has done what sports alone could not. In 1970, India has only 2,500 tigers left. The country'...
"We are discussing a creeping malady that is undermining our nation," lamented Socialist Leader Nath Pai in India's parliament last week. Dramatic as it seemed, his statement was no exaggeration. Once again battles had broken out between India's Hindu majority (460 million) and its Moslem minority...
Most Asian societies take a love-and-let-love attitude toward sex, as long as it is kept private. The trouble is that younger Asians, anxious to keep up with the latest fads flowing from Manhattan and London, have gone public. India's debate, for example, was set off...
> Pakistan, of course, will deliver its side of the same arguments that Nixon will hear in New Delhi. Nixon, however, probably will have more points of contention to discuss with President Yahya Khan than with Mrs. Gandhi. Pakistan has drawn increasingly close to China in recent years, while doing nothing...